Bauman, Wasted Lives and the Eclipse of the Political - In the modern world, political tradition faces a variety of new challenges. Forces of globalisation, consumerism and postmodernism have broken the bonds between us and made us into individualised individuals, multiple units of self-identification that have more interest in consumption than citizenship (Bauman 2001).

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